Moldings and Interiors and Schedules

[dgreen.49364]

First some history...back in the Autocad days (shudder) our interiors people would schedule pretty much everything under one schedule, finishes, fixtures, furniture, etc. Now we are trying to get them to use Revit. Revit makes us schedule things separately, Material Schedule, Furniture Schedule, Lighting Fixtures, etc. I'm fine with that. It's the way it should be.

However, I am having an issue with Moldings. I was hoping to go ahead and combine the moldings into the Finish Schedule. I can use the wall sweeps to bring the molding in and use the Paint tool to apply a "Molding Finish". However, when I do that, the finish does not show up in the Finish Schedule. I don't understand...if I use Split Faces on the walls, and apply a finish to the split face on the wall, it shows up in the Material Schedule. If I apply a finish to the wall sweep, it does not show up? Anybody know why that is?

In the end, I can always go ahead the create Wall Sweeps Schedule but I was hoping to eliminate one more schedule and include the moldings in the Materials Schedule.

[sbrown]

You've found the one big ommission from revit for interiors. It doesn't schedule wall sweeps. So what we do is we make a family called material sample, and we put these in a future phase and assign them each material that we plan to use on the project. This way we can generate the "Finish legend" without needing the finishes to be applied to the model. Then we can use these materials in the model as required. For the mouldings ether just don't schedule them(thats what we do, we show them in plan and elevation and then cut detail sections thru them and put the profiles on a sheet. If you have to have the sweeps schedule you will need to do the following work around which has some benefits of its own. Create multiple wall types for each molding type with a structure the same material as the sweep but very thin, then add the profile nested into it. Now set the height of this wall to the height of the molding and draw with it. We put these on a sep workset. Prefix all the walls or make there type mark something like MD-101 , MD-102 etc so you can create a wall schedule with these walls only.

[dgreen.49364]

Thanks Scott.